Spanish practices - part 4

Ever since Moscow's recruiting sergeants duped some bards into joining Stalin’s foreign legion in 1930s Spain, the Left has been keen to make its face attractive and disarming. The stupid, the hate-filled, the failures, the inadequate, the inveterate bandwagon joiners and the cynical (who will apply for jobs as camp guards when the time comes) have been delighted to join up and help.

It’s paid off for a quite a few of them. They have become quite rich which, amusingly, may give them a bit of an image problem when their Blood Red Revolution finally comes. If it does. Some of them are quietly postponing it so that they may enjoy a quiet and comfortable retirement. Let the next generation take up the cudgels...

The Left offers you both entertainment and fellowship (‘comradeship’) with Romantics like Working Class Bloke-in-Chief and Everyman-Songster Billy Bragg, witty turns like Eddie Izzard, very funny hate-merchants like Jeremy Hardy and Poet in Residence at both the BBC and Chateau Scargill, Ian Macmillan. At the drop of a hat, any of them will song you a song about the Spanish Civil War along the lines of that unbelievable Times leader.

The Left (and now the Times) offers you the virtuous glow of feeling benevolent alongside ‘humanitarians’ like incompetent failure (and rich) Jimmy Carter, and in our own country the ridiculous (and rich) Monbiot, the gross (and rich) tribune Prescott, and those crowning glories of the British Left, the (rich) Kinnocks, now ennobled despite devoting their whole lives to enriching themselves through inflicting their opinions on you at your expense and now millionaire pensioners, thanks to you.

Most egregious of the lot is that vast watermelon, the (exceedingly rich) Al ‘Convenient Untruth’ Gore. He carries on collecting box office takings for corrupting global politics despite knowing that his proposition is a confection of lies and bent data; despite knowing that the past century has seen less global warming than the three before it and that the world has cooled since coal-and-oil-based industrialisation. But why spoil The Plan with facts?

‘That is just a blip. Whatever the facts, I and my associates WILL control you. We are adaptable. We will continuously amend the terms of our proposition to ensure our ascendancy. We no longer say ‘global warming’. The approved term is now ‘climate change’. You didn't notice that, fools? Good. You were not supposed to.

We are not worried about scientific fact because you are too ignorant to use it against us, and anyway we are dismissing from their posts all scientists who challenge us. The approved term for these Fascists is Climate Change Deniers. They are to being denounced and eliminated wherever they are, if they dare to speak against us.

Soon, there will be no objective science which can undermine our mission to control you.

Whether you like it or not, we are now taking control of the politics of every nation on the planet. You will be forced to hand over to our people whatever we demand from your earnings, whenever we say so. You will have no choice. We are the masters now. Democracy? Fuck you and fuck your pathetic definition of democracy. It is We who will say what democracy is. We are the new democracy.

Now get out of our way.’

Some of the Left’s greatest murderers started life as your friendly ‘neighbourhood workers’ aka ‘community organisers’ aka agitprop cadres. I don't know that he has actually murdered anyone, but the agitprop leader par excellence must be Danny Cohn-Bendit, the 'hero' of Paris 1968 and leader of the Greens in the European Parliament. He is the fighter for your democracy who, standing in the Presidential palace in Prague, snarled into the face of the elected Czech President, then the President of the soi-disant democratic European Union: ‘We don’t care what you think! Your opinion does not count!'

President Klaus is not of the Left and therefore, of course, is a ‘Fascist’. The Enemy. Worse, he challenges the new Red-Green Marxist religion of climate change and is therefore worse than a Holocaust denier. Cohn-Bendit, on the other hand, is a garlanded servant of Democracy as defined by the Left.

Prior to the launch of the compulsory New Druidism, Communist leaders and foot soldiers used to start their careers by cultivating a reputation for solidarity (ha) with normal people like you and me around the neighbourhood. Jokes in the pub and all that. Now, in the age of You Tube and 24 hour TV, the stupid, lazy and otherwise unemployable go into politics (Prescott, Brown, Jacquboot) while the smartest of them become famous propagandists for Leftist thinking on TV as well-loved comedians, performance poets, singers, novelists...

Well, lookee here - we’re back at the Spanish Civil War. All that's changed since 1930 is that the Left has discovered Gaia and decided to pimp her as their latest pin-up girl. Olá!